Word: darrieux
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Cinemactress Danielle Darrieux (The Virgin Bride, The Art of Love, Mayerling); and Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican chargé d'affairs in Vichy; both for the second time; in Vichy. Her first was French Cinedirector Henri Decoin; Rubirosa's first was Flor de Oro Trujillo, daughter of the President of the Dominican Republic...
...Love" represents the average Frenchman's knowledge of that all important prerequisite to life, Paris has been greatly over-rated. Seductive as Danielle Darrieux may have been in her past appearances on the American screen, she displays nothing in this performance that cannot be found on any page of the Sears, Rocbuck catalogue, while that famous rake, Albert Prejcan, teaches her nothing which the Rover Boys did not known in their infancy. Featuring a distinctly amateur grade of photography and a plot which could not have passed the most leuient English A instructor, this film is definitely to be avoided...
...combination as could be found anywhere. The former is fairly recent and presents Jimmy Stewart and Katherine Hepburn as they put Main-Line society in its place. It is just as funny and good as Hollywood has always claimed. "Mayerling" is a Parisian importation with Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux as stars. As can well be imagined, theirs is a great love story, but the best feature of the movie is its superb musical score...
...French George Jessel, and the plot deals with his futile attempts to do what in legal terms is known as consummating the marriage. This sounds intriguing, but the trouble is he never succeeds; and the picture ends just as his son is about to succeed for him. Danielle Darrieux may be the Frenchman's conception of what it's worth flunking out of college to see, but in America she doesn't justify a D in History...
Hollywood has poured forth a steady stream of Kiplingesque spectacles glorifying the British Empire, and French films are not always guiltless of flag-waving either, though Danielle Darrieux is the best bit of Parisian propaganda we can think of. There seems little reason, why the Nazis should not also be given their day in court--provided their offerings are labelled and recognized for what they...